Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics 2 (24):20-30 (2022)
Authors |
|
Abstract |
This essay presents the Aestheticism of the 19th century as the foundational movement
of modernist-formalist aesthetics of the 20th century. The main principle of this movement is
what I denominate “productive opacity”. Aestheticism has not been recognized as a philosophical
aesthetic theory. However, its definition of artwork as an exclusive kind of form—a deep, opaque
form—is among the most precise ever given in the discipline. This essay offers an interpretation
of aestheticism as a formalist theory, referred to here as “deep formalism”, focusing on the thinking
of leading aestheticists, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde, and James Whistler. These three thinkers
defined artwork as a form saturated with an inextricable content, viz. opaque form.
|
Keywords | aestheticism, formalism, form, modernism, mimesis, opacity, autonomy, art |
Categories | (categorize this paper) |
Options |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Download options
References found in this work BETA
No references found.
Citations of this work BETA
No citations found.
Similar books and articles
Aestheticism: Deep Formalism and the Emergence of Modernist Aesthetics.Michalle Gal - 2015 - Peter Lang.
Aestheticism: Deep Formalism and the Emergence of Modernist Aesthetics. [REVIEW]Saul Fisher - 2017 - British Journal of Aesthetics 57 (4):437-440.
Michalle GAL, Aestheticism. Deep Formalism and the Emergence of Modernist Aesthetics.María Teresa Álvarez Mateos - 2015 - Bajo Palabra 10.
New Formalism and the Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature.Glenn Parsons & Allen Carlson - 2004 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 62 (4):363–376.
American Photographic Aesthetics in the Twentieth Century the Five Paradoxes of Modernism.Andrés de Li & Kevin Salemme - 2003
An Open Formalism Against Incompleteness.Francesc Tomàs - 1999 - Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 40 (2):207-226.
Musical Formalism as Radical Political Critique: From European Modernism to African Spirit Possession.Martin Rudolf Scherzinger - 2001 - Dissertation, Columbia University
Historical Formalism in Music: Toward a Philosophical Theory of Musical Form.Andrea Baldini - 2014 - Contemporary Aesthetics 12:N/A.
GAL, MICHALLE. Aestheticism: Deep Formalism and the Emergence of Modernist Aesthetics. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang AG International Academic Publishers, 2015, 166 Pp., 6 Color Illus., $60.95 Paper. [REVIEW]Tobyn Demarco - 2016 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 74 (4):425-428.
Opacity.Mark Richard - 2006 - In Ernest Lepore & Barry C. Smith (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language. Oxford University Press.
Form and Freedom: The Kantian Ethos of Musical Formalism.Hanne Appelqvist - 2011 - Nordic Journal of Aesthetics 22 (40-41):75-88.
The Stelliferous Fold: Toward a Virtual Law of Literature's Self-Formation.Rodolphe Gasché - 2011 - Fordham University Press.
Analytics
Added to PP index
2022-03-17
Total views
44 ( #257,396 of 2,507,867 )
Recent downloads (6 months)
44 ( #19,511 of 2,507,867 )
2022-03-17
Total views
44 ( #257,396 of 2,507,867 )
Recent downloads (6 months)
44 ( #19,511 of 2,507,867 )
How can I increase my downloads?
Downloads